Examples of derail

• The ' normal' progress of the courtship has been inwardly derailed, even if the outward forms are being observed.

• The most important thing, they say, is that the negotiations are not ‘derailed’ and that more are scheduled.

• One involved a passenger train in which eight carriages out of 10 derailed.

• During shunting operations one pair of wheels of a barrier wagon, between a locomotive and three nuclear flask wagons, became derailed on hand worked points.

• Three of the freight trains derailed contained continental type rolling stock.

• The train was not derailed, and there were no personal injuries.

• I am only sorry that it should have been derailed.

• I hope we shall not be derailed in all this.